noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely; in complete control of; with complete freedom; at will; as one pleases - four character idiom

noun:

• school for training bachelor girls in homemaking arts; (a type of) finishing school - four character idiom

noun:

• clumsy person; bungler; person with no particular talents (in performing arts); nondrinker; nonsmoker - four character idiom

noun:

• bad ending (in a film, novel, etc.); unhappy ending - From English "bad end"

ichidan verb:

• to write incorrectly (e.g. character); to make a mistake in writing

noun:

• punctuation words in haiku, renga, etc. such as "ya", "kana", "keri", etc.

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories

noun:

• collar; area around the collar
• counterclockwise (when seated in a circle); anti-clockwise

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

noun:

• link to (a site, as used in page ranking that site)

noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)

conjunction:

• indicates two contrasting actions - form: ...つ...つ ➜ 浮きつ沈みつ・追いつ追われつ

particle:

• indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words) - archaism

noun:

• on par (in golf, meeting par for that hole) - From English "par on"

noun:

• dwelling place of a god (usu. in reference to a large rock) - archaism

noun:

• Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myoujin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• accent (in French; acute, grave, and circumflex) - From French
• accent (on a syllable, word); stress ➜ アクセント

noun:

• woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 院

noun:

• eel and cucumber salad, finely sliced, dressed in sake, soy, and vinegar - Food term

noun:

• laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (type of laser eye surgery); LASIK

noun / ~する noun:

• slipping (in boxing); down caused by a boxer slipping - Sports term - From English "slip down"

noun:

• beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms

noun:

• daughter; young lady - Izu Oshima dialect
• young man; eldest son - Tōhoku, Hokkaidō dialect
• passive role in a male homosexual relationship - prison slang ➜ 女役

noun:

• style of drawing the human face, popular in the Heian period